Comment by rishabhaiover
4 days ago
For the longest time, the joy of creation in programming came from solving hard problems. The pursuit of a challenge meant something. Now, that pursuit seems to be short-circuited by an animated being racing ahead under a different set of incentives. I see a tsunami at the beach, and I’m not sure whether I can run fast enough.
I see it more like a playing a text adventure game. You give it commands and sometimes it works, and sometimes the results are unexpected.
Personally, I've never been interested in being a character in someone else's story.
But now you've got me thinking. Has anyone studied whether the programmers who are more enamored of AI are also into RPGs?
Not to mention many companies speedrunning systems of strange and/or perverse incentives with AI adoption.
That being said, Welch’s grape juice hasn’t put Napa valley out of business. Human taste is still the subjective filter that LLMs can only imitate, not replace.
I view LLM assisted coding (on the sliding scale from vibe coding to fancy auto complete) similar to how Ableton and other DAW software have empowered good musicians that might not have made it otherwise due to lack of connections or money, but the music industry hasn’t collapsed completely.
In the music world, I would say that, rather than DAWs, LLM-assisted coding is more like LLM-assisted music creation.
Yep DAW’s aren’t the comparison. People are not thinking deeply about what is going on - there is a big war on-going in order to eradicate taste and make it systematic to immensely benefit the few.
> I can run fast enough.
Can you do some code reviews while you're running?
(Inception scene) here a minute is seven hours